Efficient Capacity-Constrained Multicast in RC-Based P2P Networks

Abstract

Application level multicast is independent of router infrastructure unlike router-based IP multicast. The existing DHT-based application level multicast protocols work efficiently as long as there is almost no churn; otherwise, their performances start degrading drastically, because DHT – based architecture cannot handle churn effectively. Besides, most of DHT-based multicast protocols consider single data source and do not consider peer heterogeneity. In this work, we have considered an existing non-DHT based P2P architecture, viz., Residue Class based (RC-based) architecture which has already been shown to perform much better than some well-known DHT-based architectures from the viewpoints of speed of unicast communication and churn handling. We have presented a highly efficient capacity-constrained and any source multicast protocol suitable for the RC-based P2P architecture as mentioned above.